Bitchy Little Spinster
Joanne O’Leary: Queens of Amherst, 3 June 2021
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,978 0 393 35749 3 Show More
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,
“... on Main Street. The Evergreens was ‘unlike any other’ house in Amherst, kitted out with ‘a green marble fireplace, a mechanical call bell system and an early centralised heating system from the coal-fired furnace’. Mabel was ‘captivated’ by Sue, whom she entertained by playing the ‘beautiful new upright piano’ in the Dickinsons’ drawing ... ”